History
#ThrowbackThursday: The Tiger Tot Tenders

For more than a hundred years, Princeton Student Agencies have offered goods and services â some essential, some luxurious, others just plain wacky â to the Princeton community.
In 1946, an all-male group of juniors founded the Tiger Tot Tending Agency, offering babysitting services to faculty and town folks to widespread demand.
âThe Tiger Tot Tenders got an unexpected bonus of being picked up by the national press and then we were off,â wrote Charles Biddle â47, a PAW reader and one of the agencyâs co-founders.
The news traveled as far as Washington state, where in January 1947, the Spokesman Review even ran a front-page photo of Peter Walmsley â47, co-founder and manager, reading to two tots.
âAs I remember, it was hard work and not overly lucrative at 35 cents an hour,â Biddle wrote, adding, âNevertheless, it was good training. If you could survive that madhouse, later life stresses would appear minor in comparison.â
Entrepreneurship in the student agencies continues at Princeton. Earlier this month, the Special Occasions Student Agency piloted a new program: an on-campus grocery delivery service. For a fee of $7.50, the agency will deliver groceries from Wegmanâs to campus. For an additional $5, the agency will bring those groceries straight to a studentâs dorm room.